This is a nice thing about Nebraska.

See that picture up there? That’s what I see every day on the way home from school. They are building Lincoln’s first 2 lane round-a-bout and the left lane is closed ahead. If you squint, you can just make out the big arrow sign.

Notice what you don’t see in the left lane? Any cars. For about a mile before the lane is actually closed everyone has already queued up in the right lane and are calmly and politely heading home from work. It absolutely amazes me every single day.

Don’t get me wrong, there are things that Nebraska drivers do that drive me crazy too, but they have this down.

I just experienced a traffic pattern like that last night. I was in the lane that was ending, and had trouble deciding if I should get over. It seems polite to me to get over soon, but that is not the common practice in Baltimore, so getting over only means having dozens of cars butt in line ahead of you.

After living here for so long, I am now confused and conflicted when approaching a heavy-traffic merge.

People here are awful about that. They stay in the closing lane as long as possible and sometimes even past. If the area is exceptionally bad and some drivers are mad at the habitual bad drivers, they’ll drive in the lane that’s ending, but only to block potential butters. That creates even more tension.

But I live in an area where the driving is crazy-aggresive, there are a lot of us, and the infrastructure has always needed work.

That’s actually the second two lane roundabout, there is also one next to the stadium where salt creek roadway meets 9th St. and I’m surprised you don’t take Cornhusker Hwy to 34 (I180) I’ve found that it is actually faster. (I go out to Airpark everyday)

SO did you drive by it and check? (If not I promise it’s two lanes) And did you mean 33rd and Adams? If so I would take 56th to Fremont, Fremont to 48th and 48th to Cornhusker, this way you go under the train and won’t have to worry about stopping.

I have to say that I get annoyed at the people who zoom ahead & then are real aggressive with butting in. I wonder why the East is not as polite as the mid-west. Higher altitude? Ocean air? Not enough plains?